Pensioners' Incomes Series, 2008/09-2020/21

<p>The Pensioners' Incomes (PI) Series contains estimates of the levels, sources and distribution of pensioners' incomes. It also examines the position of single pensioners and pensioner couples,including any dependent children, within the income distribution of the population as a whole. This differs from Households Below Average Income (HBAI) (see SN 5828), where analysis is on a household basis and includes income of adults not in the pensioner unit but living in the same household.</p> <p>The PI series is a key source of information is used to inform Government thinking on relevant policies, as well as related programmes and projects. Researchers and analysts outside government use the statistics and data to examine topics such as ageing, distributional impacts of fiscal policies and the income profiles of pensioner groups. The PI estimates (as well as HBAI) are based on a sample of around 7,000 pensioners in private households in the United Kingdom, taken from the <a title="Family Resources Survey" href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/series/series?id=200017"> Family Resources Survey</a> (FRS). </p> <p>Annual reports and accompanying tables, research and technical papers for PI are available on the gov.uk <a title="Pensioners' Incomes Series Statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pensioners-incomes-series-statistics--3"> Pensioners' Incomes Series Statistics</a> webpage. </p> <p>The UK Data Service currently holds the PI series from 2008/09 onwards (2007/08 for the restricted-access Safe Room version - see SN 7196). Previously, PI data files were held within the annual FRS studies, but were moved to this study (SN 8503) covering the PI series, in August 2019.  PI data are also available from 1994/95 onwards via the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml" rel="external">Stat-Xplore online tool</a>.</p><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Latest edition information</span></p><p>For the fourth edition (June 2022), data and documentation for 2020/21 were added to the study.</p>